A miserable fraud
The power to choose on social media who is to be the next target of America’s moral manhunt, all with the benediction of a panel of biddable celebrities.
The power to choose on social media who is to be the next target of America’s moral manhunt, all with the benediction of a panel of biddable celebrities.
Despite her reluctance, Zarina Bhimji's work does engage with her personal history of Indians' expulsion from Uganda.
For Ugandans the Americans are basically aiding a military infrastructure that will mostly terrorize local people and strengthen an unpopular dictator.
If you're accused of 'terrorism' in Uganda, you end up at Luzira Prison, known for torture and its 5,000 prisoners in a place with a capacity of 500.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Da7K3e0M8SI The video for Kampala rappers Sylvester & Ssavoo’s “Akaseera” comes with a laid back groove.
Ugandans may not have much to celebrate under President Yoweri Museveni's now 25 year rule, but the music must go on.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlXkKCa2yy0 Another Michael Kiwanuka tune.
By Dan Moshenberg Somebody call Paul Gauguin. The site of exotic exploration of bare naked, happy
“Wooye” by Ugandan crooner Maurice Kirya.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkDVUVosSgA From somewhere in American suburbia, the very frank, at times trite The Ten Minute Fix,
The umpteenth stand-off between Uganda's government and the "Walk to Work" protests by opposition forces.
Just about this time last year, Uganda lost a priceless part of its cultural heritage when
Homosexuality can get you beheaded in Saudi Arabia and there are several other places with similar policies. But, Uganda’s pretty bad.
Peter Muhumuza Tuke's film "Kengere" - using puppets - tells the story of how soldiers trapped 69 people in a train that was then set on fire during Uganda's civil war.
Two photographers - unrelated - highlight the precarious existence of gay lives on the continent.
This statement, signed by a group of African bloggers, including this site, was published a month after Ugandan LGBTQ activist David Katu's murder.
Yan Gross, the Swiss photographer and skateboarder–in an interview with South African journalist, Sean O’Toole, in
The Ugandan gay rights activist David Kato was murdered on January 26th, 2011.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGiLEEX5OuQ&feature=player_embedded&w=500&h=307&rel=] Rakesh Rajani, the head of Tanzanian “citizen-centered initiative”, Twaweza, on the “five key networks that
Do the foregrounding of celebrities and stories of human tragedy help or hurt two new films about hip hop in Uganda?